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Internal ID UUID643fd74d8d358786867871
Scientific name Bauhinia ungulata
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 374 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Cansenia ungulata (L.) Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 122 (1838)
Pauletia ungulata (L.) A.Schmitz Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg.43: 393 (1973)
Bauhinia unguiculata Sessé & Moc. Naturaleza (Mexico City) ser. 2, 1: append. 62. 1888
Bauhinia cuyabensis var. cuyabensis Steud.
Bauhinia galpinii var. ungulata L.
Bauhinia macrostachya (Benth.) Baker

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Language Common/alternative name
Spanish escalera de mono

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Bauhinia ungulata var. cuyabensis (Bong.) Vaz Rodriguésia54: 125 (2003)
Bauhinia ungulata var. obtusifolia (Ducke) Vaz Rodriguésia54: 127 (2003)
Bauhinia ungulata var. parvifolia (Ducke) Vaz Rodriguésia54: 127 (2003)
Bauhinia ungulata var. ungulata Unknown

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Haiti
      • Puerto Rico
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • Guyana
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000173948
USDA Plants BAUN9
Tropicos 13027456
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:316241-2
The Plant List ild-20070
Open Tree Of Life 819470
NCBI Taxonomy 231278
IUCN Red List 146787040
IPNI 316241-2
iNaturalist 280543
GBIF 2952993
EPPO BAUUN
USDA GRIN 435787
Wikipedia Bauhinia_ungulata

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Spray-Drying Microencapsulation of Bauhinia ungulata L. var. obtusifolia Aqueous Extract Containing Phenolic Compounds: A Comparative Study Using Different Wall Materials Remígio MS, Greco T, Silva Júnior JO, Converti A, Ribeiro-Costa RM, Rossi A, Barbosa WL Pharmaceutics 02-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11054010
doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics16040488
PMID:38675149
NMR-Based Metabolomics Reveals Effects of Water Stress in the Primary and Specialized Metabolisms of Bauhinia ungulata L. (Fabaceae) Borim de Souza AJ, Ocampos FM, Catoia Pulgrossi R, Dokkedal AL, Colnago LA, Cechin I, Saldanha LL Metabolites 03-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10053921
doi:10.3390/metabo13030381
PMID:36984821
Bio-Prospecting of Crude Leaf Extracts from Thirteen Plants of Brazilian Cerrado Biome on Human Glioma Cell Lines Silva VA, Rosa MN, Gomes IN, Vital PD, Alves AL, Evangelista AF, Longato GB, Carloni AC, Oliveira BG, Pinto FE, Romão W, Rezende AR, Araújo AA, Oliveira LS, Souza AA, Oliveira SC, Ribeiro RI, Reis RM Molecules 01-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9921846
doi:10.3390/molecules28031394
PMID:36771057
Medicinal Plants from Latin America with Wound Healing Activity: Ethnomedicine, Phytochemistry, Preclinical and Clinical Studies—A Review Salazar-Gómez A, Alonso-Castro AJ Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 31-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9505834
doi:10.3390/ph15091095
PMID:36145316
Do Reproductive Traits of Invasive Populations of Scotch Broom, Cytisus scoparius (Fabaceae), Outperform Native Populations? Gudžinskas Z, Taura L Plants (Basel) 19-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9414750
doi:10.3390/plants11162158
PMID:36015460
Cancer and apoptosis: The apoptotic activity of plant and marine natural products and their potential as targeted cancer therapeutics Chaudhry GE, Md Akim A, Sung YY, Sifzizul TM Front Pharmacol 10-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9399632
doi:10.3389/fphar.2022.842376
PMID:36034846
Essential Oil of the Plants Growing in the Brazilian Amazon: Chemical Composition, Antioxidants, and Biological Applications Ferreira OO, Cruz JN, de Moraes ÂA, de Jesus Pereira Franco C, Lima RR, dos Anjos TO, Siqueira GM, do Nascimento LD, Cascaes MM, de Oliveira MS, Andrade EH Molecules 08-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9318482
doi:10.3390/molecules27144373
PMID:35889245
The structure of tropical bat–plant interaction networks during an extreme El Niño‐Southern Oscillation event Oliveira HF, Pinheiro RB, Varassin IG, Rodríguez‐Herrera B, Kuzmina M, Rossiter SJ, Clare EL Mol Ecol 15-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC9305221
doi:10.1111/mec.16363
PMID:35064726
The Assembly of Tropical Dry Forest Tree Communities in Anthropogenic Landscapes: The Role of Chemical Defenses Bravo-Monzón ÁE, Montiel-González C, Benítez-Malvido J, Arena-Ortíz ML, Flores-Puerto JI, Chiappa-Carrara X, Avila-Cabadilla LD, Alvarez-Añorve MY Plants (Basel) 14-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8877018
doi:10.3390/plants11040516
PMID:35214850
Abortion occurs during double fertilization and ovule development in Paeonia ludlowii Chen T, Xie M, Jiang Y, Yuan T J Plant Res 20-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8894304
doi:10.1007/s10265-021-01366-5
PMID:35059894
Research advances and prospects of legume lectins Katoch R, Tripathi A J Biosci 23-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8608583
doi:10.1007/s12038-021-00225-8
PMID:34815374
Bioprospecting of Natural Compounds from Brazilian Cerrado Biome Plants in Human Cervical Cancer Cell Lines Rosa MN, e Silva LR, Longato GB, Evangelista AF, Gomes IN, Alves AL, de Oliveira BG, Pinto FE, Romão W, de Rezende AR, Araújo AA, Oliveira LS, de M. Souza AA, Oliveira SC, de A. Ribeiro RI, Silva VA, Reis RM Int J Mol Sci 25-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8036847
doi:10.3390/ijms22073383
PMID:33806119
No Effect of Selective Maturation on Fruit Traits for a Bird-Dispersed Species, Sambucus racemosa Koyama K, Tashiro M Plants (Basel) 16-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC7919819
doi:10.3390/plants10020376
PMID:33669228
The upshot of Polyphenolic compounds on immunity amid COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging communicable diseases: An appraisal Khalil A, Tazeddinova D Nat Prod Bioprospect 15-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7558243
doi:10.1007/s13659-020-00271-z
PMID:33057955
Breast Cancer: A Global Concern, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Perspectives, Mechanistic Targets in Drug Development Chaudhry GE, Jan R, Akim A, Zafar MN, Sung YY, Muhammad TS Adv Pharm Bull 14-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC8642807
doi:10.34172/apb.2021.068
PMID:34888205

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